In an office in the city, a pendulum swung, the faint click-click of the simple device's movements was hypnotizing.
Anyone who walked into the office would have been tempted to look at the pendulum, and completely ignore the young woman sitting behind the glass desk. But with her white suit and platinum blonde hair, Ashely Greene was striking and impossible to ignore once a person got a good look at her.
But her looks, though beautiful, were also very disconcerting. There was just something about her that did not put a person at ease. She had all of the grace of a serpent about to strike. And no matter how good she was at hiding her true nature, from time to time, that side of herself still showed up.
